Machine for printing calico



J. GREEN. MACHINE PQR PRINTING GALIGO. No. 51,039.

PatentedNov. 21, 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GREEN, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE Foa PRINTING cALloo.'

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,039, dated November 21,1865.

To all whom it may concer/n.:

Beit known that I, JOHN GREEN, ot' Lowell, inthe countyof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Machine for Printing Calico; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described'in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotes a plan 5 Fig. 2, a vertical section, and Fig. 3, a side elevation ot' such machine.

The object of this invention or machine is to print borders as well as the figures nclosed therein.

The printing-rollers of an ordinary calico .printing machine are usually of one diameter; but in my invention I employ printing-rollers of different diametersthat is to say, the roller for printing the border of a handkerchief, for instance, I make of very much larger diameter than that for printing the gure encompassed by such border, intending to print the entire border by one revolution of the border printing roller, whether such border be rectangular or square, or be composed only ot' two parallel stripes, or be otherwise formed. The filling figure or ligures may be printed by a succession of rotations of their roller or rollers.

In the drawings, A is the bed-cylinder or bowl as it is commonly called by calico-printers. A round-this anda series of rollers, aaa' a', an endless blanket, E, runs. The said blanket also goes about a roller, B,on whose shaft there `is apulley, l. An endless crossed band,z', works about the said pulley l, anda pulley, m, fixed on thc shaft of the border-printing cylinder fC, and having a diameter equal to that of the pulley l.

There is a pulley, l', on the shaft of one of the rollers a, which is next tothe roller B. An endless belt, k, goes around the saidpulley l', and a pulley, n,tfixed 0n the shaft of a roller, b, about which roller, and aroller, c, an inkin gapron, d, travels. This inking-apron takes color from a roller, c', placed in a trough, h.

D D are rollers or cylinders which may also take ink or color from suitable rollers working in troughs. Each of the rollers D D serves to print the filling ligure or figures on a strip of cloth when extending around the cylinder A and on the blanket E.

The rollerB gets its motionfrom the cylinder A by means of the blanket E, and the cylinder A gets its rotary motion from the roller D, to which rotary motion is to be given in any suitable manner.

The roller B should have a diameter equal to that of the roller C in order that the circumference ot' the roller O may move at the same Velocity as that of the cloth on the cylinder A. The printing-apron d also runs at this velocity. While the printing-cylinder O prints the border the cylinder D prints the gures encompassed by or inclosed within the border.

What I claim as myinvention is as follows:

l. The printing of a square or rectangular or other endless border with one cylinder, and printing figures within the space inclosed by such border' by one o r more cylinders having a diameter or diameters less than that ofthe border-printin g cylinder.

2. The printing of a right-line border, or one with two ends, with one cylinder, and printing the filling between such border by means of one or more cylinders having adiameter or diameters less than that of the border-printing cylinder.

3. In combination with the printing-cylinder D, the bed-cylinder A and the blanket E, the border-printing cylinder C, havinga diameter larger than that of the printing-cylinder D, and prepared so as to print a border, as specified.

4. The combination as well as the arrangement of the equalizingspeed roller B, the blanket E, the bed-cylinder A, the printingcylinder D, andthe border-cylinder c, the two pulleys l m, and the belt t', or the equivalents thereof.

5. The arrangement ot' the hiking-belt d and its operative mechanism, the border-printing cylinder C, the bed-cylinder A, the printingcylinder D, and the blanket E.

JOHN GREEN.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, J r. 

